Archived Quotes

As a well

spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Look at the sky.

We are not alone.

The whole universe

is friendly to us and

conspires only to

give the best to those

who dream and work.

Pain is weakness leaving the body.

From there to here,

and here to there,

funny things are everywhere.

Ideally a book would have no order to it,

and the reader would have to discover his own.

Technological progress is like an axe

in the hands of a pathological criminal.

It is art that makes life,

makes interest,

makes importance… gives pleasure,

and gives meaning.

If you don't ask,

you don't get

Stevie Wonder

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket

book not only suffers by it,

but your preparations are lost

and a season passes away unimproved.

Every individual matters.

Every individual has a role to play.

What a man's mind can create,

man's character can control.

Peace cannot be kept by force;

it can only be achieved by understanding.

Climbing to the top demands strength,

whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

It is with your aid, as the people,

that I think we shall be able to preserve

not the country, for the country will preserve itself,

but the institutions of the country

those institutions which have made us free,

intelligent and happy the most free, the most intelligent,

and the happiest people on the globe.

Every artist was first an amateur.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Love sought is good,

but given unsought is better.

I never want to grow up.

I never had a policy;

I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?